Then close down the critics.
According to the site owners, the Caledonia Wakeup Call website has been served with a demand that it be shut down by 5:00 pm today, from the OPPA, the union for the OPP officers.
Ordinarily, I might side with the OPPA on this. But as they’ve shown precious little concern for the safety and security of the residents of Caledonia, (much less the repeated demands of the judge to execute a court order) I’m taking a pass on this one.

On further reflection, one wonders why Curtis Dagenais chose such a antiquated course of action to settle the land claim he had with his parents, when today’s enlightened police forces deal with attempts on the lives of police officers” in a way that’s reflective of 2006.”
Had Dagenais only had the presence of mind to set up a roadblock using downed SaskPower transmission towers, cover his face with a scarf and set fire to a few tires and bridges before his deadly assault on three officers, the RCMP might well be surrounding the area south of Spiritwood this afternoon, keeping a wary eye on the angry residents of the Mildred area now forced from their homes.

The number one threat to our western way of life isn’t Al Qaeda.
It’s mission creep.

Boston Herald;

A memo sent to the Globe’s Boston Newspaper Guild members, and obtained by the Herald, states that Massachusetts gay Guild employees can extend their benefits to their partners only if they marry.
“An employee who currently covers a same-sex domestic partner as a dependent will have to marry his or her partner by Jan. 1 for the employee benefits coverage to continue at the employee rates,” the memo states.
The policy change at the Globe, which devotes extensive coverage to gay issues, opens a new can of worms in the Bay State as employers rethink their domestic partner benefits in the wake of the legalization of gay marriage in 2004.
Benefits for domestic partners were originally offered to gay employees because they couldn’t legally marry, said Ilene Robinson Sunshine, a lawyer at Sullivan & Worcester.
Now that gay marriage is legal in Massachusetts companies that offer benefits to gay employees’ partners risk hearing cries of discrimination from unmarried straight couples.

That’s going to be nothing compared to the cries of foul from gay couples who were benefiting under the previous policy, but had no intention of getting married.
I hope they remember who to complain to.

Via email;

Citizens Of Caledonia have confirmed today in a meeting of town’s poeple that Homes on Argyle St. And Sixth Line are being purchased by McGuinty. People must move out by the end of October. People are being offered above market value for their homes.

From the comments, a quote from Canadian Sentinel worth stealing (hence the change in title) – that the actions of Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government amount to “ethnic cleansing with compensation”

Update – a few commentors have objected to the characterization of this as “ethnic cleansing”. Really? Let’s review the facts and the history of this conflict:
The home-owners being selected for buy out on the basis of race. And if they refuse – what? Will McGuinty enforce the law if they are assaulted or their property damaged by “Six Nations” aboriginals? He certainly hasn’t to date. The OPP have refused to enforce court orders, they have refused to enter the reserve to apprehend persons alleged to have attempted to murder their own officers. There have been reported cases of arson, theft, extortion, assault, and desctruction of property.
The message being sent by the Ontario government in appeasing these criminals is loud and clear – “either we buy you out, or they’ll burn you out.”
A reminder for those commentors who seem ignorant of the history of the illegal occupation of Caledonia, via Dust My Broom;

The continued occupation of a disputed tract of land in Caledonia by aboriginal protesters in the face of an earlier finding that they are in contempt of court means that rule of law has still not been restored in the community, says the judge who issued the order.
And in a democracy, when court orders are not obeyed, “the court is not hurt by it. It is destroyed by it. There will be a return to rule of law,” Mr. Justice T. David Marshall of the Ontario Superior Court said at a hearing yesterday as he ordered parties to return to court on July 24.

Update A statement has been released by Ontario PC leader John Tory;

“The rule of law must return in Caledonia on all fronts,” said Tory. “Dalton McGuinty must finally show the leadership necessary to bring an end to the continued lawlessness. That means no occupation of any land by anyone; no lawless behaviour by anyone; and no defiance of court orders by anyone.

And the reason Tony Blair’s Labour Party needs to go;

Mr Ternouth’s thriller flooded back to me this week when I read of the Government’s plan to spend £224million of your money and mine on setting up a database, recording details of the lives of all 12 million children in England and Wales.
Among other things, the Children’s Index will record whether a child’s parents are providing a ‘positive role model’, how the child is performing at school — and even whether youngsters are eating the daily five portions of fruit and vegetables recommended by the Government.
Presumably, children will be questioned at school each morning on what their parents fed them the night before.
The database, we are told, will be made available to social workers, teachers and doctors, who will have the power to flag up ‘concerns’ when they think that children are not meeting the criteria laid down by the state.

A special article for those who are dismissive of those of us who warn about the caring totalitarianism that creeping into our lives in the guise of the benignly misnamed “Nanny State”.

From a noble member “of an oppressed minority asserting their civil rights*“;

Flash! (Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco and Firearms) agents, US Border Control vehicle, eye in the sky, encircling and victimizing the Indigenous people. It suddenly occurs to us that US President George Bush might be testing his killing machine in Canada before he does it on his own people. He wants to make sure his network of spies, deportations and killings work out somewhere else first. We Indigenous people are the only ones publicly standing up to this. Everyone else has been scared into silence. It looks like he’s got the cooperation of his puppet, Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. People like us are dangerous to anyone with these kinds of designs. It might be too late for Canada. Bush’s plan seems to already be in motion.

Reporting from the Marxist-Leninist Daily;

To Ontario Premier Dalton “Mike Harris/Ipperwash Copycat” McGuinty:
Your clowns are really putting on a show, aren’t they? Friday June 9th was a bad day for the “Keystone Cops” of the Ontario Provincial Police OPP and the U.S. Border Patrol. All our suspicions have been confirmed. Ontario’s representatives are sell outs to the Americans and they’ve been dealing with us in bad faith. So what else is new? Dalty, your henchmen were caught red handed. They were trying to cook up a storm and got caught in their own tornado. What goes around comes around.

These are the people Dalton McGuinty has set out to appease. What the hell. It’s not his money.
(More here on Kahentinetha”Hitler was a 20th Century pioneer of the social welfare state who went too far” Horn.)
Related: Lorne Gunter – “What’s the Iroquois phrase for ‘aiding and abetting’?”

During my stint at the CBC Election Roundtable earlier this year, I critiqued Jack Layton’s plan for “focused, targeted steps to support creative people and to make sure Canadians see themselves in our culture.”

I can’t continue. My eyes are bleeding.
And before you, dear reader, object – be advised that I am an artist. In fact, the most common type of artist, a living, breathing, working one of the unheralded “commercial” variety. Unlike our cousins in “the Arts,” we manage to make a living at our craft without seeking comfort from the nanny state wet nurse.

I forgot to add – “or offering it.”;

The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar is partly funded by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

That moaning you just heard was the sound of John Williamson curling up in a fetal position on the floor.

(Update – Several readers have emailed privately to ask about the device he is holding in his hand – Saskatchewan residents will recognize it as his Andrew Thomson* remote.)

Another chapter in the noble struggle of members of an oppressed minority asserting their civil rights*;

Earlier yesterday, two CH TV cameramen were assaulted, allegedly by natives occupying a disputed piece of land.
About 90 minutes later, a witness said a group of natives dragged four American tourists from their SUV after they snapped a few photos of the native-occupied land despite remaining on public property.
“Two of them were off-duty New York State troopers,” said a resident who lives near the attack site. “Two of them were dragged from their truck and (the natives) drove off and (went) back into their own area.”
Witnesses said they drove around in the tourists’ vehicle for about an hour before returning it.
The CH TV camera operators, one of whom needed stitches to close a head wound, said Ontario Provincial Police did nothing despite their pleas for help.
[…]
Lawn signs reading, “Have you seen Diane Finley’s leadership?” made reference to the lack of action by the federal government.
Other residents wondered what happened to the provincially appointed mediator, David Peterson, who they haven’t seen since a near riot broke out last month.
“Somebody is going to have to die before someone actually does something about this,” one resident said echoing the thoughts of nearly everyone living near the border of the disputed land.

For the sake of the tax-payers, pray it’s not one of the Mohawks, or there will be another 20 million bucks down the drain in a pc attempt to assign blame to anyone but those responsible.
More from Jamie West.
See also, Mullahs of Caledonia;

The aboriginals in Caledonia are not engaged in a protest. Protests do not last two months and do not involve the seizure of large swaths of land. If anything the events in Caledonia are closer to an insurrection, or the actions of an attempted succession, than a protest. The aboriginal occupiers have never conceded the legitimacy of their opponents, the local residents and the civil authorities. The removal of the road blockade was described as “good will gesture.” In other words the local residents had no right, legal or moral, to their property, no right to travel on public highways, no right to a continuous flow of electricity, all these things are only allowed by the permission of the occupiers.
The Caledonian Aboriginals have established, to borrow Trudeau’s words from the October Crisis, a “parallel power” in southern Ontario. There is, however, nothing of the widespread danger posed by the FLQ. The occupiers represent a small minority which in turn is a small minority of the Canadian population. Yet in substance they have gone much further than the FLQ ever did.

RTWT.
Update – The power of publicity. Now there’s an investigation.
Update #2 – News of police looking for several people with an eye at attempted murder charges;

An Ontario Provincial Police officer suffered serious injuries Friday after angry aboriginal protesters surrounded a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle and dragged out its three occupants.
The injured officer was pulled out of the path of the stolen vehicle as it was driven deliberately at him, OPP Const. Doug Graham said Saturday.
“They were forcibly removed after they were swarmed,” Graham said.

The once “disappointed” Dalton McGuinty is now reported to be “angry”. One presumes an apology to former premier MIke “Ipperwash” Harris is in the offing.
Updates via Nealenews, who’s doing a great job staying on top of developments.

A sad case of liberal left anti-gun brainwashing – another family heirloom is turned in under the Langley “gun amnesty”.

“If this gun had killed somebody, I would have felt terrible.”

No shotgun shells exist that fit the piece, which is estimated to be over 130 years old.

A “good Liberal” checks out the “noble struggle of members of an oppressed minority asserting their civil rights”;

I had no intention of involving myself in the dispute, but I thought it would be cool to snap a picture of the barricades from a safe distance for posterity. I stopped my car on the other side of the street, away from the disputed property. I clicked the button and prepared to be on my way.
How foolish of me to believe the laws of Canada were in effect in Caledonia.

Then he’s assaulted and robbed.
Via The Politic.
It’s no better for the cops on the line;

…officers who have been told not to wear riot gear or tactical uniforms when dealing with native protestors, are being sent out without proper back-up and are left wondering if commanding officers and the courts will back them up when they try to enforce the law.

Riot gear = bad optics. Read it all.
Perhaps they should just wear civilian clothes and cover their faces with bandanas.

Memo to CBC staff;

‘Terrorist’ and ‘terrorism’: Exercise extreme caution before using either word.

More.
Related: “ACLU defends Nazi’s right to burn down ACLU headquarters.”

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Revisiting one of the racist diatribes I’m famous for;

What seems to have been overlooked is that the majority of crimes commited by aboriginal offenders are against other aboriginals. As a result, the majority of aboriginal victims of crime receive “two-tier” justice as well. For example, the battered aboriginal spouse is more likely to see her abuser released back into the community than had the crime occured in a non-aboriginal relationship.

With that in mind, you need to read between the lines to figure out who’s assaulting whom in this curiously incurious Globe and Mail item;

A new survey says aboriginals are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than non-aboriginals.
The report by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics says four in every 10 aboriginals over age 15 reported being victimized in the previous 12 months, compared with a national average of 28 per cent.
It says aboriginals were twice as likely to be repeat victims, three times as likely to be robbed, assaulted or raped and 3½ times more likely to suffer spousal violence.
Between 1997 and 2000, aboriginals were seven times more likely to be murdered.

These findings seem to suggest that the solution to the problem of the “disporportionate incarceration rate” – which continues despite a Supreme Court decree that “mandatorily requires sentencing judges to consider all available sanctions other than imprisonment and to pay particular attention to the circumstances of aboriginal offenders” – is to stop prosecuting aboriginal on aboriginal crime at all.
(Stats Can figures on Canadian homocides.)
Darcey has a more personal take. Go read it.

A brilliant piece by Per Bylund on the degrading effects of the welfare state on Swedish society.

The problem is that the welfare state was created and it would dramatically change people’s lives and affect their morality in a fundamental way. The welfare state might have been a successful project if people had continued to have the pride and morality to supply for themselves and only seek support if really in need. That is, adding a welfare state could possibly work in a ceteris paribus world, which is what the welfare state really presumes. But the world is ever-changing, and the welfare state therefore requires people to be stronger and morally superior to people in societies lacking a welfare state.
[…]
The children of my grandparents’ generation, my parents among them, quickly learned and embraced a new morality based on the welfare “rights” offered by the social security system. While the older generation would not accept dependence on others (including state welfare benefits) they did not object to sending the younger generation to public schools to get educated. I am certain they never thought in terms of having a “right” to have their children educated. Rather, they accepted and appreciated the opportunity for their children to have a chance they themselves had never had — through “free” education.
So my parents’ generation went to public schools where they were taught mathematics and languages as well as the superiority of welfare and the morality of the state. They learned the workings of the machinery of the welfare state and gained a totally new (mis)conception of rights: all citizens enjoy a right — only through being citizens — to education, health care, unemployment, and social security.
Being an individual, they were taught, means having a right to support for your individual needs. Everybody has a right to all the resources necessary to pursue one’s own and society’s happiness, they were told. And everybody should enjoy the right to put their children in state daycare centers while working, making it possible for every family to earn two salaries (but not enough time to raise their children). The opportunities for “the good life,” at least financially, must have seemed enormous to the older generations.
This new morality permeated the populace and became the “natural” state of things, at least in their minds. This generation, born during the two or three decades following World War II, became considerably different from their parents’ generation morally and philosophically. They got used to the enormous post-war economic growth (thanks to Sweden never entering the war) and the ever-increasing welfare rights of the rapidly growing state. (To sustain the growth of the welfare state and satisfy the popular demand for benefits, the Swedish government devaluated the currency a number of times during the 1970s and 1980s.)
The effects upon society of this generation growing up and entering the labor market were principally two: increased public pressure for more progressive politics; and large-scale, society-wide failure to raise independent and moral children able to be their own masters in life.

Read the whole thing. (Though, it’s going to be a tough swallow for our readers on the anti-depressant left….)

With post titles like “11 reasons why working mothers can’t stand housewives”, you just know you’re onto something special. Let’s just say she has “issues”.
(As an aside – what is it about those who skulk about on the toxic fringes of the leftosphere that they are so loathe to reveal their identities?)

Times Online;

BRITAIN’S most senior policeman Sir Ian Blair is facing a race relations dilemma after the release of figures that reveal almost half the number of people arrested in relation to car crime in London are black.
[…]
Last week the Met attempted to explain the high number of arrests among blacks by the fact that they make up a higher proportion of the population in areas such as Southwark and Lewisham in south London, where the ANPR units operate.
However, statistics from the 2001 census show that the highest black population in any borough is no greater than about 25%. The proportion of black people across the capital as a whole is about 11%.
Peter Herbert, an independent member of the MPA and spokesman for the Society of Black Lawyers, said: “The Met really wants to avoid any allegation of disproportionality so they will seek to explain these figures by whatever nuance they can. The targeting of certain boroughs might be justified in terms of some crime, but it’s certainly not justified in terms of all crime.”

One presumes city officials will soon set about designing racial sensitivity training programs for the automatic numberplate recognition cameras responsible for collecting the data.
h/t

And another worm wiggles free.
An Alberta court has ruled that the law requiring a photo be taken for the purpose of drivers license identification violates the religious beliefs of Hutterites and is unconstitutional. (No link available yet)
Next up:

Via John Gormley LIve, where callers were quick to point out that they don’t seem to have any religious objection to having their images captured by surveillance video at Wal-Mart.
Upon further reflection… does this confer legal immunity on Hutterite drivers photographed by red light cameras?

Like I said, to the victor go the spoils.
CBC

A draft copy of the final residential school agreement shows that the federal government will pay $40 million each to a Regina law firm and a national consortium of lawyers.

None of that includes the significant legal bills submitted in the course of the long running adjudication process, (for which I’ve been told one firm was paid to do nothing but attend on behalf of the federal government). And that leads me to mention another quirk of process – in the case of residential school claims, the word “adjudication” refers to hammering out an agreement the government is obligated to accept, while the complainant had the option of walking away to try for more.

Via email;

Have you heard of Maclean’s In-Class Program? I’m a substitute teacher & just got home from teaching Social Studies 10 where the students had to work on “current events” & were each given their own April 17th edition of Maclean’s magazine to use to answer MICP inspired questions from the cover article “The Worst President in 100 Years?”
You’ve maybe seen it, not that you’d have to see it to know that the answer according to Maclean’s is “yes”.
There the students sat as quiet as cherubs reading & drinking it all in. As I watched the kids work it made me long for the days when Social Studies classes at least pretended to be non-partisan (the next article was of the Tory/NDP/Bloc conspiracy to sink the Libs). Then, my earlier business training kicked in & I realized how Maclean’s is grooming future subscribers by positioning themselves as the “truth” to an audience that is programmed to think they are being delivered the truth.
Teachers don’t care; you hand out anything in an inexpensive, photocopiable,
easy-to-deliver package and it’s used.
The teacher’s guide is designed by teacher Allan Hardy as well as Peter Flaherty of CBC News in Review & member of the Faculty of Ed at York. Gold Sponsor of the program is The Centre for Education & Training…a self-described “progressive” not for profit corporation, providing 1000 students with magazines.
The whole program just seems kind of…wrong…to me. It’s one thing to use the media to teach critical thinking, another thing if the media sets it up & benefits while broadening the sheep count.
Somehow I suspect my teacher’s union wouldn’t appreciate my concern for
Canada’s quality of education.

And that is why, like so many other concerned contributers to SDA, the writer asked to have their identity protected.
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